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Crime Prevention and Risk Assessment Tools Survey

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We are going to ask you questions related to crime prevention policies and the use of risk assessment tools in criminal justice and social care policies. We encourage you to make use of the space for comments under each question, should you feel the need to provide additional clarifications or noting any issues of importance.


 

Crime Prevention and the Use of Risk Assessment Indicators in Criminal Justice and Social Care Policies

 
Question 1
Does the country have a national crime prevention strategy (in some countries crime prevention might be referred to as community safety)? (required)
 
Question 2
Are there government endorsed crime prevention multi-agency structures in the country? (required)
 
Question 3

In your professional judgement, how extensive is social crime prevention throughout the country?

(Social crime prevention, sometimes known as ‘community safety’, engages with particular age groups or communities to change behaviour, provide support, and reduce chances of offending. The interventions can be made by youth workers, social services, police or other agencies.)

In the country, social crime prevention is developed… (required)
 
Question 4
Situational crime prevention involves ‘target-hardening’ or designing the environment to reduce criminal opportunity (e.g. installing CCTV cameras or removing dark alleyways from urban design). In your professional judgement, would you say that in the country: (required)
 
Question 5
Do the police formally assess the risk posed by non-offenders (i.e., persons who are believed to be at risk of committing a violent or serious offence, but are not yet convicted)? Please do not include risk assessment for potential extremism/terrorism offences here. (required)
If there is such formal risk assessment, what is it based on? (You can reply affirmatively to all options below, if there are multiple approaches to risk assessment in use)
If relevant, do any of the tools assess dynamic/changing factors (e.g., social relations, employment, substance abuse)?
 
Question 6
Is there a formal risk assessment procedure for offenders, designed to assess the risk of re-offending? Please do not include risk assessment procedures for terrorism or extremism here. (required)
If there are such risk assessment procedures, what are they based on? (You can reply affirmatively to all options below, if there are multiple approaches to risk assessment in use)
If relevant, do any of the tools assess dynamic/changing factors (e.g., social relations, employment, substance abuse)?
 
Question 7
Is there a formal risk assessment procedure used by any state agency in the field of youth delinquency, other than cases related to extremism/terrorism? (required)
If there are such tool(s), what are they based on? (You can reply affirmatively to all options below, if there are multiple approaches to risk assessment in use)
If relevant, do any of the tools assess dynamic/changing factors (e.g., social relations, employment, substance abuse)?
 
Question 8
Is there a formal risk assessment procedure used by any state agency in the field of child protection? (required)
If there is such procedure, what is it based on? (You can reply affirmatively to all options below, if there are multiple approaches to risk assessment in use)
If relevant, do any of the tools assess dynamic/changing factors (e.g., social relations, employment, substance abuse)?
 
Question 9
Is there a formal risk assessment procedure for judging clients’ potential harm (to themselves or others) used in the social service domain by state agencies? (required)
If there is such procedure, what is it based on? (You can reply affirmatively to all options below, if there are multiple tools in use)
If relevant, do any of the tools assess dynamic/changing factors (e.g., social relations, employment, substance abuse)?
 
Question 10
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